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Linux Scores A Surprising Gaming Victory Against Windows 11 (www.forbes.com)

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I recently spent some time with the Framework 13 laptop, evaluating it with the new Intel Core Ultra 7 processor and the AMD Ryzen 7 7480U. It felt like the perfect opportunity to test how a handful of games ran on Windows 11 and Fedora 40. I was genuinely surprised by the results!

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The Framework 13 is perfectly capable of gaming even with its integrated graphics, provided you’re willing to compromise by lowering the resolution and quality presets for more demanding games. (It’s also a testament to how far AMD’s APUs have come in the past decade.)

Summary of results:

Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Linux wins
Total War: Warhammer III: Windows wins
Cyberpunk 2077: Linux wins
Forza Horizon 5: Windows wins

These results are an interesting slice of the Linux vs Windows gaming picture, but certainly not representative of the entire landscape. A few shorts years ago, however, I never would have dreamed I’d be writing an article where even two games on Linux are outperforming their Windows counterparts.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (2 children)

When I started using linux 15 years ago, my friend recommended to keep a windows partition for gaming. At least for me, I have deleted windows a few years ago and I'm not looking back.

[–] UnfortunateShort 30 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you play DRMed AAA stuff, that's still true unfornately (if you can't do VM with PCIe passthrough).

Personally I just opt to not play these games. The market dicides in the end.

[–] MotoAsh 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Some of the "anticheat" systems straight up decide not to work on VMs even with PCIE passthrough et. al. For example, I cannot run Elden Ring with its trash DRM because it says it cannot run under VM. I have PCIE passthrough, and the CPU id also passes through. Only the chipset reports anything VM, yet the "anticheat" decides not to run.

Fuck DRM. It has done nothing except push me to pirate more when I LITERALLY AM buying the games. Fuck those greedy actual morons (corporations who deploy DRM, not FromSoft specifically).

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago

Elden Ring does run quite nicely on Linux via Proton, though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

A little birdie told me there's a fit girl on the internet who might be able to help

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I will always upvote Amelie. She needs donations too

[–] systemglitch 4 points 3 months ago

Infind most AAA games to be such shit compared to indie games these days it's almost laughable.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

My gaming PC was the last one I had running Windows. I couldn't take it anymore and this year I switched that one too.

Now if only I could run (my perfectly legal copy of) SOLIDWORKS decently, it'd be great.